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“Going off of unique frequencies, there are more colors in a rainbow than there are stars in the Universe or atoms in your body, but that goes far beyond what we can perceive. Your imperfect eye can (probably) only discern about a million distinct colors when you view a rainbow, or anything else, for that matter.” How many colors are really in a rainbow
“Going off of unique frequencies, there are more colors in a rainbow than there are stars in the Universe or atoms in your body, but that goes far beyond what we can perceive. Your imperfect eye can (probably) only discern about a million distinct colors when you view a rainbow, or anything else, for that matter.”

How many colors are really in a rainbow

8-31-2012
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    Anyone else think of Professor Henry Higgins and his apparently infinite collection of vowel sounds?
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    http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/ everyone listen to this shit, radiolab’s colors podcast. fucking rad.
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    So going off of unique frequencies, there are more colors in a rainbow than there are stars in the Universe or atoms in...
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    Love that article! So much beautiful science to enjoy! And, hey, if thinking about colors and how humans perceive them...
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